The cost of the House Ways and Means Committee's SGR-repeal bill is about $5 billion higher than that of one approved by a separate committee -- the House Energy and Commerce Committee -- last summer. The tab for that bill came in at $116.5 billion.

All of the bills are similar, providing 0.5% annual increases in payments from 2014-2018 while encouraging physicians to adopt alternative payment models such as accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes.

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